Friday, May 8, 2009

Millennium Park and the Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Millennium Park and the Jay Pritzker Pavilion. Chicago.


Food: The Gage

A quick meal at The Gage, on Michigan Avenue, Chicago. My order: Scotch
Egg (hard-boiled egg wrapped with herbed sausage and bread crumbs,
toasted to perfection and served with a spicy mustard and greens);
tomato puree soup.


Sunday, May 3, 2009

Mandarin Hotel in Beijing

The Mandarin Oriental building, by Rem Koolhaas/OMA, after February's devastating fire. The building sits next to the CCTV building.



Food: sauteed dumplings, pig skin jelly

煎饺、皮冻。5月2日于北京。


Food: 4-cheese Pizza and a Duvel

Four-cheese pizza (Gorgonzola, Fontina, Pecorino, and one other unidentified species...perhaps Comte?), and a gently poured glass of Duvel. The Tree, Beijing.


Saturday, May 2, 2009

Revolutionary Opera: 沙家浜


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沙家浜:王蓉蓉饰阿庆嫂。5月1日于北京长安大戏院。

Friday, May 1, 2009

Food: 云南粑粑


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云南粑粑。于北京。